President
Obama’s last head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was
Thomas Perez, a highly controversial radical. Perez is now the
secretary of the Department of Labor. (He was confirmed in July this
year by a vote of only 54 to 46.) When looking to replace Perez at the
DOJ, President Obama could have chosen to improve the Civil Rights
Division — after all, the Justice Department’s own inspector general
concluded in a report earlier this year that the division was guilty of
“deep ideological polarization” and a “disappointing lack of
professionalism.”Instead, Obama has picked someone who clearly shares Perez’s worldview, Debo Adegbile, the senior counsel to the highly partisan Senate Judiciary Committee. He will also be the fourth head of the division who has worked at the Washington office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This group, which has a rigid view of civil-rights enforcement, has recently lost several high-profile court cases. Just last February, Adegbile went before the Supreme Court to defend Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which required that many states (mostly Southern) have all changes to their voting laws precleared either by the DOJ or in federal court. The Supreme Court properly decided that this portion of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional, given that much of the data used to decide which states needed preclearance dated from 40 years ago
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